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View Issues on a PDF file

Accessing and Understanding the Detail PDF View panel.

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From the Dashboard Quick Wins panel or the Page or PDF List for a Site or Page Set, select a PDF's URL to access the Detail PDF View - all of the issues reported for that page and other supplementary information.

Access the PDF Inventory

From a Site or Page Set's dashboard, select the x PDFs link to review the PDF inventory from the latest crawl.

Review the PDF Inventory

The PDF inventory panel displays the following information for each item:

  • Type

  • Filesize

  • Created at - taken from the file's metadata

  • Last modified - taken from the file's metadata

  • Pages - number of pages in the PDF

  • Accessibility Issues

  • Broken Links

  • PDF Tags

  • Open Tasks

  • Link Sources - how many pages in this site link to the PDF

The panel can be sorted by any of the columns shown by selecting that column's header.

Select a PDF's URL to access the Detail PDF View - all of the issues reported for that file and other supplementary information

PDF Inventory Panel

Detail PDF View Panel

The header area of the Detail PDF View displays the following:

  • Full URL of the PDF

  • Filesize and file type

  • Date and time the file was last inventoried

  • Refresh Content button to update the cached version of the PDF from the webserver location shown in the header.

Header area of Detail PDF View Panel

The left side of the Detail PDF View panel has the following tabs down the left side:

  • Accessibility Issues

  • Bad Links - lists broken links in the document. (Just for clarity, we can only check if links are actually entered in the document. If there is simply a URL in the text of the document and it is not actually linked, we cannot test in that situation.)

  • References - listing of files in the current site that link to this PDF

  • Metadata - displays the metadata found in the PDF

  • Network - displays header data found in the PDF

Detail PDF View Panel highlighting left menu tabs


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